Yusuke Sugomori

Yusuke Sugomori is a computer scientist specializing in machine learning and deep learning, and the co-founder and CTO of MICIN, a leading medical-tech startup in Japan. MICIN, which raised $10 million in Series A funding, is working to drastically improve the maintenance, organization and utilization of patients’ medical data in Japan through the use of artificial intelligence. 

Yusuke is also an active and prolific educator. Since 2016 he has been a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Tokyo, where he teaches on topics related to deep learning, and regularly lectures on artificial intelligence at some of Japan’s—and the world’s—largest companies. Yusuke has published five books on deep learning in English and Japanese. His books have also been translated into Chinese and Korean. Yusuke and his work have been featured in several Japanese business or technology publications, including Nikkei Computer.

Prior to co-founding MICIN, Yusuke spent three years as a Creative Technologist at Dentsu, Japan’s largest advertising agency, during which he was seconded to Google’s New York office. Yusuke received his B.S. from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Engineering and his M.S. in Technology Management for Innovation from the University of Tokyo Graduate’s School of Engineering.